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| | | (...) There are at least 30-40 million people in the region who speak English very well. In fact Australia, NZ and Hong Kong all have English as an official language whilst many Japanese and Koreans can read English (as can many Malays and (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 —Leonard Hoffman
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| | | | (...) How many of those 30-40 Million people applied to be LEGO Ambassadors? Knowing the people who've made this selection, having met them in person (Jake, Steve, Jan), I seriously disagree with your characterization of them ignoring such a wide (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | (...) I'm not accusing them, I am accusing their employers. Don't accuse me of characterising people when I have said absolutely nothing about anyone. It seems to me you are just using this thread as an excuse to namedrop. The Ambassadors program is (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 — Jake McKee
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| | | | | | (...) I know it might be nearly impossible to believe, but I'll say it anyway - the group responsible for this program is much much smaller than you might believe. I know that when you talk about a company, any company, it's extremely easy to turn (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.lego, FTX) !
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 —Richie Dulin
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| | | | | | | (...) Well, I wasn’t upset because you said that, I was upset because the ambassadors didn’t do the same. (...) You certainly didn’t offend me by the statement. I thought it was great that applications spanned the globe. And disappointed that it (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | (...) Dear Jake, I am not trying to attack a faceless monster here, I am responding to Lenny's claims that you guys were personally being in some way harrassed/ attacked/ asserted against in my original post. I believe that you love your job enough (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 —Todd Kubo
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| | | | | | | (...) I hope that some information I can add here might be helpful. I do have a handfull of contacts in Japan that I converse with regularly via e-mail. And even though I have done a larger number of trades - I can only speculate why they didn't (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 —Pete White
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| | | | | | (...) Just ignore him, he's a Space Nazi(TM). (...) Is that Tormod 'the modder of bricks' or Tormud 'the Tor of earth' (as Lenny stated) ? pete'Torte'.w (the Tor of desserts) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) !
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 —Richie Dulin
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| | | | | (...) Jake said "The application pool spanned the globe". Maybe "spanned the globe" is now a turn of phrase meaning "spanned europe and north america"? Maybe Jake could share some evidence otherwise? Cheers Richie Dulin (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | (...) Whoops! Sorry to reply to myself, I set the followupto, not X-post. Stupid me! Tim (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.loc.hk, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 — Jake McKee
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| | | | | (...) How am I giving conflicting information? The only thing I can imagine *might* fall under that category is your question about geographic location being part of the selection process. Like I mentioned before, Ambassadors aren't chosen based on (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 —Richie Dulin
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| | | | | | (...) From (URL) this post>: "...the first criteria before all others was to select the best group of candidates based on their applications. Now, if there was a 12 way tie, then perhaps location could help provide a tie-breaker" (emphasis mine) and (...) (19 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 —David Koudys
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| | | | | | In lugnet.lego, Richie Dulin wrote: <snip> (...) Those two statements don't contradict one another, from what I see... It's like "We'll accept applications from all over the world!" If only Canadians send in applicaitons, then only Canadians will (...) (19 years ago, 4-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego) !
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 —Richie Dulin
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| | | | (...) Although more people applying would be nice to see, the real requirement is better people applying. Cheers Richie Dulin (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.loc.hk, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Ambassadors Cycle 2 —Timothy Gould
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| | | | (...) Fine, I've removed .nz from the crossposting. Tim (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.loc.hk, FTX)
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